File photo: A cross stands in June 2003 along Indiana 25 south of Shadeland for Sue Scipio, who died after driving a motorcycle drunk and being throw from it on June 10, 1999.

Written by

Bart Jansen
| USA Today

States should reduce the blood-alcohol level that qualifies as drunken driving to 0.05 percent to reduce fatal crashes, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended Tuesday.

The risk of a crash at 0.05 percent is about half as much as at 0.08 percent, the limit in all states, according to a safety board report released Tuesday.

"This is critical because impaired driving remains one of the biggest killers in the United States," said Deborah Hersman, the NTSB chairman. "To make a bold difference will require bold action. But it can be done." ...